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Friday, February 12, 2016

Will Peak Oil or Renewables Make Climate Change Moot?

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Hopeful onlookers sometimes point to two possible escape hatches from the problems of burning fossil fuels. One escape hatch is "peak o...
Thursday, February 11, 2016

Twenty Years Since the Welfare Reform of 1996

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Twenty years ago in 1996, President Bill Clinton signed into law the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act, more ...
Tuesday, February 9, 2016

Breaking Down US Inflation Rates by Category

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Since 2000, the Federal Reserve has focused on the Personal Consumption Expenditures price index for its primary measure of inflation, rathe...
Monday, February 8, 2016

A Peek at Russia's Economy

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Even before the recent plummeting of the price of oil, Russia's economy was showing signs of slowdown and stress. With oil prices now in...
Friday, February 5, 2016

The Life of US Workers 100 Years Ago

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Carol Boyd Leon has written "The Life of American Workers in 1915" for the February 2016 issue of the Monthly Labor Review , whic...
Thursday, February 4, 2016

Keynes on "Ruthless Truth-Telling"--and the IMF Connection

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Back in 2006, Mervyn King--who was then the Governor of the Bank of England--gave a talk about "Reform of the International Monetary F...
Wednesday, February 3, 2016

Winter 2016 Journal of Economic Perspectives Available Online

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For about 30 years now, my actual paid job (as opposed to my blogging hobby) has been Managing Editor of the Journal of Economic Perspect...